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A FIVE-PART series titled ‘Race: A Guided Discussion’ staged at Moray House Trust has come to an end after weeks of engagement on the subject. The protracted period during which the event was staged allowed time and space for re-adjustments to positions, rebuttals and rejoinders.

Dr Jagan’s ‘The West On Trial’ was written in exciting first person prose – reminiscent of certain books by writers like Robert Penn Warren, Ernest Hemingway or John Dos Passos

ACCORDING to unofficial reports, the just-concluded two-day Inter-Sessional Meeting of Caribbean Community Heads of Government could hardly boost optimism for new initiatives to overcome prevailing disillusionment resulting from lack of commitment to implement approved decisions.

ELECTION day is 71 days away. And currently, the people have no clue as to what platforms the contesting parties are advocating for the good of this dear land of Guyana.

An agenda devoid of interest for country and people

THE first round of the battle for the euro is over, and Germany has won. The whole European Union won, really, but the Germans set the strategy. Technically, everybody just kicked the can down the road four months by extending the existing bail-out arrangements for Greece, but what was really revealed in the past week

FROM the inception of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) – the forerunner to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), the Jagans had established a vital women’s partnership that struggled in sync with the parent body, always led by the partner in struggle of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, his wife Janet.

(By Rickey Singh in Bridgetown) AS GUYANA prepares for a snap general election this coming May 11, there have already been two startling political surprises within the past fortnight—both occurring as Guyanese were merrily involved with ‘Mashramani’, their version of annual carnival celebrations this month.

IN our previous column, we talked about introspection and its importance even in business and with Valentine’s Day celebrated across the world last weekend, it seems an apt time to expand beyond introspection, to also assessing and embracing relationships.

CONGRATULATIONS to Minister Anthony and his staff, as well as the Government and people of Guyana, for staging for successfully staging Mashramani 2015.